SHARING
TRUTH

WITH COLOMANVIOLA

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Coloman VIOLA (VIOLA Kálmán) was born in 1928 in
Székesfehérvár (Alba Regia), Hungary, the
Capital City of his country for several centuries since the time of
Saint Stephen, first King of the Hungarian Crown (1000-1038). During
his philosophical studies in his native country he has chosen the
freedom and was compelled to leave the Communist Dictatorship passing
through the Iron Curtain. He completed his Philosophical,
Theological, and Palaeographical studies in various European
Universities and pursued Linguistic studies in Japan. After his
teaching activities in Tokyo, Rome and in Paris, he consecrated most
of his time for research work at the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique in Paris. He was for five
years Director of a research programme in Japanese
Linguistics (modern scientific
terminology) at the Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique. Besides his linguistic studies, his
scholarly activities as a researcher embraced various fields of
Ancient Greek, Mediaeval
Christian and Contemporary Thought, namely
the problem of relationship between reason and
faith.
His main
subject is the reinterpretation of
Saint Anselm of Canterbury's
method and thought who was one of the
great Thinkers of the Mediaeval Christian Period. Already in 1972, de
Lubac qualified his studies on Anselm as of great importance. -
No living scholar has done more than
Coloman Viola to enlarge our understanding of the writings of St
Anselm : this is the recent judgement
of late Sir Richard W. Southern, FBA, on his scholarly
achievement.

He was in charge of the
Palaeographical Research Centre in Tokyo and later on he taught Latin
Palaeography at the Gregorian University of Rome. Some of his
discoveries concern the oldest exemplar of the first psychological
treatises of the XIIIth Century, Johannes de Rupella's
Summa de anima as well as the identification of some anonymous
treatisesand fragments.

He is Editorial Consultant of Anselm Studies (The Edwin
Mellen Press, Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter); member of the
Comité de rédaction of the Dictionnaire critique de
Théologie, (Presses
Universitaires de France, Paris).

His bibliography embraces publications in seven languages. You may become
acquainted with his thought and scholarly work through his
publications. He is
criticising certain forms
of contemporary historiography. He is engaged in
discussing some aspects of